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In 2018, PISA introduced an assessment of global competence to equip young people with the skills, knowledge, attitudes and values to create "an inclusive and sustainable world" (OECD, 2018. 1). Throughout this article, we take the OECD... more
In 2018, PISA introduced an assessment of global competence to equip young people with the skills, knowledge, attitudes and values to create "an inclusive and sustainable world" (OECD, 2018. 1). Throughout this article, we take the OECD seriously at their claims around inclusion. We look critically at the global competence framework to ask what PISA means by inclusion, and trouble the idea that inclusion can function effectively within a global standardised assessment. We put Bernstein's (2000) notion of recontextualisation to work to demonstrate how inclusion takes on new meaning as it moves between each iteration of the global competence framework. We show how this recontextualisation re-orientates inclusion from a social justice imperative towards supporting young people's inclusion into a globalised market economy.
